Flaying knife



Aug. 5 1924.

e.zURc|-|ER PLAYING KNIFE Filed March 10 Patented Aug. 5, 1924.

UNITED STATES GOTTLIEB ZTl'RGI-IER, 0F ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.

FLAYING- KNIFE.

Application filed March 10, 1924.

gin of the blade, projects beyond the strips,

the edges of the latter being thickened so as to form shoulders forlimiting the depth of the cut and preventing the knife from entering anddamaging the hide.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a side view of the knife,and

Fig. 2, a cross-section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

The knife is composed of a handle a to which a blade holder in the formof two superposed, bladeshaped metal strips 0 are secured. A thin steelblade I) is adapted to be inserted between the strips 0 and to beclamped in position, for instance by means of screws d. The arrangementis such that the cutting edge, together with a narrow uniform margin, ofthe blade 7) projects beyond the edges of the strips 0, and said latteredges are thickened so as to form shoulders whereby the depth of the outis limited.

The two strips may be connected at the Serial No. 698,218.

back edge of the knife, as shown in Fig. 2. WVhile the shoulder-formingedges of the strips 0 are thick, the remaining portions thereof arepreferably made as thin as convenient so as not to make the knife tooheavy and so that a certain amount of flexibility is obtained.

The blade 7) is removed from the holder for sharpening.

By limiting the depth of the cut in this manner, a damage to the hide iseffectively prevented.

I claim 1. A flaying-knife comprising a handle,

a blade holder composed of two superposed metal strips secured to saidhandle, a loose blade adapted to be held between said strips with thecutting edge projecting uniformly from the edges of the strips, andmeans for clamping the strips to the blade, the edges of the stripsbeing thickened so as to form shoulders along the cutting edge of theblade for limiting the depth of the cut.

2. A flaying-knife comprising a handle,

a blade holder composed of two superposed, blade-shaped metal stripssecured to said handle and connected along one edge, a loose bladeadapted to be held between said strips with the cutting edge projectinguniformly from the free edges thereof, and means for clamping the stripsto the blade, said free edges of the strips being thickened so as toform shoulders for limiting the depth of the out.

GOTTLIEB' ZURCHER.

